Bendigo hotels with a pool: 2 indoor, 2 outdoor

All Seasons Resort Hotel Bendigo is the pick for an indoor pool. The Bendigo region's tourism listing describes a 17-metre heated pool beside a spa, a sauna and a mini gym, and the water is kept at around 28°C all year. It is also the best-rated of the four, 8.9 from 1,289 reviews. For families there is a children's playground, a games room and free in-house movies, plus a bistro on site. The trade-off is location: it sits at 171-183 McIvor Highway in Strathdale, a short drive rather than a walk from the city centre.

Quality Inn Colonial, at 483 High Street in Golden Square, is the second hotel with an indoor pool, with a spa alongside and barbecue facilities. It has the lowest score of the four, 7.5 from 495 reviews, and Golden Square sits south-west of the centre along High Street, so plan on driving in for dinner and the sights. I would book it for one reason only: a roof over the pool for children on a winter weekend, when All Seasons is full. For anything else, the three other hotels on this page score higher.

Quest Bendigo Central is the choice if you want to walk into the city: serviced studios and apartments of up to three bedrooms at 228 McCrae Street, with kitchens and laundries that suit a longer stay, rated 8.0 from 1,609 reviews, the largest review base of the four. Its pool is a solar-heated outdoor lap pool next to a barbecue area. Guests describe it as small and not always warm, so I would see it as a summer extra rather than a reason to book. Secure parking on site is useful so close to the centre.

Quality Hotel Lakeside, at 286 Napier Street, faces Lake Weeroona on the north side of the centre, with an outdoor pool and a restaurant, rated 8.4 from 1,260 reviews. Some guests find the pool area a little dated. It is still the one I would choose for a summer stay: a swim at the hotel, dinner on site, and the lake across the road for an evening walk with children. In winter the pool is not the draw and the lakeside position is the reason to stay. Like Quest, it does not answer an indoor-pool search, whatever the booking filters say.

If your hotel's pool is outdoors, the city's public pools fill the gap. Gurri Wanyarra Wellbeing Centre, at 9 Browning Street in Kangaroo Flat, is the City of Greater Bendigo's indoor centre: a 51.5-metre eight-lane pool, a zero-depth splash park, a beach-entry leisure pool where toddlers walk into the water at their own pace, a learn-to-swim pool and a warm-water program pool with spas. It is the place I would take children on a cold or wet day, whichever hotel you are in. Kangaroo Flat borders Golden Square, so it pairs naturally with Quality Inn Colonial.

Faith Leech Aquatic Centre, at 161-167 Barnard Street, is Bendigo's outdoor heated complex, and since 2026 it opens all year. In the summer season, from the third Saturday of September to the second Sunday of May, the 50-metre pool, a shaded toddlers' pool, an intermediate pool, a diving pool and a water slide at selected times are all heated. In the winter season only the 50-metre pool stays open, and the small pools close. Bendigo East pool has become summer-only, so a winter swim with young children means Gurri Wanyarra.